On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 00:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 05 Sep 2003 9:50 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > > > you mean - you have to run XFdrake in text mode ? or does it start > > in graphic mode ? > > > It was in text mode, which I expected. I have done it that way > before, but this time I couldn't edit anything at all. > > > Anyway - make sure there is no /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Just > > remove the old one - so the system will use the safe defaults - > > should do it. > > > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 doesn't exist at all. > I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to the lines that mine uses for the lcd > monitor. The display card settings seem to know what it is, and I > dropped the default from 24-bit to 16-bit, but it still didn't work. > The display still gets to the blue wave, then dropps to shimmering > white, retries a couple of times, then drops to text mode.
correct me if I'm wrong but isn't XF86Config for 3.3.6 and XF86Config-4 for 4.3.0? > > I have edited lilo.conf so that it starts up from the old 9.0, which > at least lets me in for now, but it brings up a lot of errors at boot > up, which I'll have to sort out later. If you run startx from runlevel 3 ... what does it give you as the reason for not starting? > > If I mount /dev/hdc7 as /mnt/temp can I reasonably copy the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 from the 9.0 setup into the /mnt/temp setup? > > It will have to be this afternoon, as I have to go out this morning. > > Anne
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